Word: keyser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Christopher M. Keyser '82, a third-year law student, will team up with the Moral Majority leader in the white he affair. Opposing them will be David R. Lange, whose government has a hard-line anti-nuclear policy, and John M. Nicholson, a Harness Fellow (similar to a Rhodes Scholar...
...middle-American marriage bound together not be love, but by hate. Martha Susannah Rabbi, an unhappy academic wife shiewishly taunts her younger husband for tailing to move up the academic, ladder at the small college where he teaches history, and where her Lather is president. Her husband George Christopher Keyser) retorts with pointed references to her accumulating years and alleged infidelities. Throughout, he refers to her in a variety of zoological references and at one point speaks of an imaginary child being the apple of their three eyes, Martha being a cyclops...
...Rabb and Keyser shine throughout, giving us a George and Martha we can believe have been tormenting each other for 23 years. Keyser's George is properly sardonic and resigned, while Rabb's Martha transcends nastiness. When Rabb admits in the final lines that she is afraid of Virginia Woolf, we see a nasty and bitter woman afraid of the impending madness that led Woolf to suicide. Richardson plays a sturdy and naive Nick, while Isenberg seems to have fun with Honey's exaggerated dippiness. The scenery is basic suburban tawdry, but someone had the good sense to place...
...Tyrrell Keyser Phoenix...
...most consistent in avoiding this pitfall is Susannah Rabb as the incredible Eleanor, whose abundant stage presence lets her lea into moments and deliver lines with the weight they deserve. Chris Keyser fares slightly less well as Henry, probably the most challenging character to convey, with by far the most lines--show-stopping or otherwise--and the most emotional peaks. Often his monologue's become so passionate and vigorous that they border on the shrill, shortchanging the "moments of truth" that must descend on a king who has fought to build a near-imperial England and-now sees his grown...